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Title: LIVING SAND

Reference number: 4222

Date: 1966 *

Director: filmed by N.T. Nicoll

Production company: Marine Laboratory Aberdeen, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.23 mins

Description: Documents the work of marine biologists at the Aberdeen Marine Laboratory.

Credits: ed. N.T.Nicoll

Shotlist: opening credits (0.20) m/s crofter and his boy in small boat creel fishing for lobsters (0.44) trawler boat at sea, nets laden with catch are hauled onboard (2.20) coastal farmland landscape - sheep, cattle, farmer/crofter scything in field, sheaves in view (3.30) brief shot man in marine biology laboratory, shots down the microscope looking at micro-organism sample (5.02) men collecting sand samples on beach and on sea floor with the aid of various contraptions plus a diver (7.04) c/u flat fish and crabs (7.59) gvs marine biologists at work in lab and sample tanks (11.29) gvs coastal landscape, underwater shots of diver, marine biologists searching through sand collection for samples, c/u small fish, limpets and seaweed (14.42) m/s marine biologist examining sample tanks (15.16) The End (15.23)